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Three New Fabs for Foxconn

by Tom Allen

Sources from Asia claim that Foxconn is to establish a G6 LTPS TFT-LCD panel fab in Guiyang City, China. The fab will mainly be used to produce 5.2″, 5.5″ and 6″ panels for smartphones. …

Bloomberg: Apple Building Screens at ‘Secret’ Lab

by Tom Allen

Apple has opened its own display division to develop new screens – at least, according to Bloomberg. People with knowledge of the facility, which is based on Longtan, Taiwan, say that ‘at least’ 50 …

HTC Shows Vive in Taiwan

by Tom Allen

HTC is showing off its Vive VR headset in Taipei’s Syntrend Creative Park, from now until the 13th January. The event gives Taiwanese consumers a chance to try the headset before it goes on …

Foxconn Chair Supports Tariff Elimination

by Tom Allen

Terry Gou, chairman of Foxconn, has said that the Chinese government should drop tariffs on LCD products shipped from Taiwan, from 5% to 0%. Korean makers do not pay these tariffs, so such a …

Tags:China| Foxconn (Honhai)| Large Display Monitor| Taiwan| Vol 22 - Issue 49

Heraeus and ITRI Collaborate on Touch Screens

by Tom Allen

Heraeus and Taiwan’s Industrial Technolgy Research Institute (ITRI) have been working together for several years. Their work has been focused on touch screens, using Heraeus’ Clevios conductive polymer-based touch panels (ITRI and Heraeus Scale …

CPT Requires Unpaid Leave to Avoid Layoffs

by Tom Allen

‘To overcome [the] economic recession and improve financial performance’, Chungwha Picture Tubes has asked its employees to take unpaid leave. From now until the end of 2016, an unspecified number of workers will be …

Tags:CPT| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Taiwan| Vol 22 - Issue 45

Giantplus Buys 4G Fab from CPT

by Milos Pavlovic

GiantPlus of Taiwan has bought a 4G production line from its parent company, Chunghwa Picture Tube (CPT) to further develop its specialty display products sales. The capacity of the fab is 60K 680 x …

Taiwan Sees Growth in Large Panel Shipments in Q3

by Milos Pavlovic

Digitimes Research reports that large LCD sales by Taiwanese makers reached 58.63 million in Q3, up 1.2% quarter on quarter. The volume gives Taiwan a forecast market share for the year of 34.2%, with …

Taiwan Smartphones Down 10% in Q3

by Bob Raikes

Digitimes Research said that smartphone shipments from Taiwan-based brands and ODMs dropped by 10% to 19.54 million in the third quarter of 2015. Compal was the top producer in Taiwan, followed by Asustek which …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Taiwan| Vol 22 - Issue 42

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 40

by Tom Allen

AMD has said that it will work with Oculus VR and Dell to drive PCs with the Oculus Ready certification (Oculus Lists VR Challenges). AMD will fit these PCs with its own Radeon GPUs. …

COMPUTEX Returning 2016 with Two New Areas

by Isaac Oburu

COMPUTEX TAIPEI is coming back 2016 from May 31st to June 4th! Registration for local and overseas exhibitors is now open, and the organizers have already received requests to expand booth spaces from many …

Tags:Computex 2015| Events| Taiwan

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 22 No 40

by Tom Allen

AMD has said that it will work with Oculus VR and Dell to drive PCs with the Oculus Ready certification (Oculus Lists VR Challenges). AMD will fit these PCs with its own Radeon GPUs. …